- Trump Again Threatens Government Shutdown If He Doesn’t Get Border Wall Money http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-shutdown-wall_us_59a49648e4b050afa90c3b98 80 comments politics
- White nationalist gets his money from cotton fields - and the government https://www.revealnews.org/article/white-nationalist-gets-his-money-from-cotton-fields-and-the-government/ 6 comments politics
- The federal government spends seven times as much money on people over 65 as it does on people under 19. The Republican base are the people who get the most from the federal government. Conservatives can’t think if they reject these facts - David Frum http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83679_page4.html 142 comments politics
- If you run a failing business that needs government money you shouldn't get bonuses...right? Not according to AIG http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29697096/ 3 comments business
- World Bank says it will try to get governments to stop spending public money making fossil fuels artificially cheap https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/10/11/world-bank-targets-dirty-subsidies-to-fund-climate-action/ 34 comments energy
- Chuck Schumer made sure businesses controlled by Trump, his family, and top US officials couldn't get money from the government's $2 trillion coronavirus bailout fund https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-chuck-schumer-bars-trump-businesses-from-bailout-fund-2020-3 4993 comments politics
- Trump threatens to keep government shut down for ‘months or even years’ to get wall money https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-urges-gop-lawmakers-to-stand-with-trump-in-shutdown-fight/2019/01/04/99519d06-103f-11e9-84fc-d58c33d6c8c7_story.html?utm_term=.1a9615e4770f 15 comments politics
- White nationalist Richard Spencer gets his money from Louisiana cotton fields—and the US government http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/richard-spencer-cotton-farms-louisiana-subsidies/ 16 comments politics
- White Nationalist Richard Spencer Gets His Money From Louisiana Cotton Fields—and the US Government http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/richard-spencer-cotton-farms-louisiana-subsidies 15 comments politics
- Furloughed U.S. government employees will receive back pay when the shutdown is over, essentially making the shut down a paid vacation for them. Tax payers are not really saving any money, it's just now they are not getting anything for their money. http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/government-workers-will-be-paid-during-shutdown/ 69 comments politics
- It's Official: The Government Won't Be Getting Its Money Back From The GM Bailout http://www.businessinsider.com/its-official-the-government-wont-be-getting-its-money-back-from-the-gm-bailout-2010-11 7 comments business
- C-SPAN retrospective, Newt Gingrich resignation speech from Congress after getting caught stealing tax payer money, and being fined $300,000 by the Federal Government for stealing US Taxpayer money. Never forget. http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/id/87155&start=1031&end=1091 20 comments politics
- Swedish government to woman: Get a breast reduction or no money for you. Woman: But I like my breasts... http://www.disaboom.com/blogs/disabled_politico/archive/2008/12/04/swedish-woman-s-disability-benefits-withdrawn-due-to-breast-size.aspx 121 comments worldnews
- Remember folks : "The government does not have any money. It does not make anything. It does not produce any money. All the money it gets it takes from you" http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/hamilton8.html 124 comments reddit.com
- Ricketts tells local governments they won't get federal COVID-19 money if they require masks https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/ricketts-tells-local-governments-they-wont-get-federal-covid-19-money-if-they-require-masks/article_d15459b9-26df-527e-9899-9f579a3d8597.html#anchor_item_5 58 comments politics
- Germany rejects EU call for more money to fight climate change - The German government is resisting a plea by Brussels to provide more funding to get the EU's flagship climate change policy off the ground – in a blow the continent's decarbonisation hopes. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-climate-change-emergency-money-eu-latest-a9284876.html 22 comments worldnews
- The perfect storm: An unprecedented concentration of income and wealth at the top; a record amount of secret money flooding our democracy; and a public becoming increasingly angry and cynical about a government that’s raising its taxes, reducing its services, and unable to get it back to work. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/perfect-storm/ 24 comments politics
- The Government Accountability Office has some somber words for U.S. taxpayers: After 25 years of work and billions of dollars, we may not get our money’s worth out of the International Space Station. http://news.discovery.com/space/gao-warns-space-station-may-be-a-bust.html 19 comments science
- The fact that most Canadians get a substantial amount of money as carbon tax rebates from the government every three months shouldn't be that hard to get across #GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carbon-tax-rebate-perceptions-believe-it-or-not-1.7079782?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar 20 comments climate
- Rand Paul: "Anybody who gets money from government in the form of a contract should be limited in what they can do to lobby to get more of our money" http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4577525/vetsask-paul-limit-defense-contractors-lobbying 14 comments politics
- GM's Phony Bailout Payback- GM is using government money to pay back government money to get more government money. http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/27/gms-phony-bailout-payback 6 comments reddit.com
- Why Doesn't The Government Get The Banks Who Received Bail-Out Funds To Lend Money To GM (& Co)? They Want Banks To Lend Right? It Seems That This Solution Would Solve Two Problems At Once. http://www.com 8 comments reddit.com
- Rudy Giuliani Jokes About Suing Robert Mueller For $17 Million To 'Get That Money Back For The Government' https://www.newsweek.com/rudy-giuliani-jokes-about-suing-robert-mueller-17-million-get-money-back-1441450 27 comments politics
- Thai Tycoon Gets Death Threats Weeks After Registering New Party - The 39-year-old isn’t shy about taking on some of Thailand’s most powerful players: He wants to do away with military rule once and for all, give regional governments more control over money and break up entrenched oligopolies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-27/thai-tycoon-gets-death-threats-with-challenge-to-ruling-elites 183 comments worldnews
- U.S. government warned of 9/11-like cyber attack: "The power doesn't work, there's no way you can get money, you can't get out of town, you can't get online, and banking, as a function to make the world work, starts to not be reliable. That is a cyber-Pearl Harbor, and it is achievable." http://mashable.com/2012/12/03/9-11-cyberattack/ 5 comments politics
- The Global Debt Crisis: How We Got in It and How to Get Out.Contrary to popular belief, most of our money today is not created by governments. It is created by private banks as loans. http://www.truthout.org/global-debt-crisis-how-we-got-it-and-how-get-out/1307386310 5 comments economy
- (regarding future inflation) "Why 4 to 6%? Because it has to be a level that the government can get away with. Financial repression means stealing money from savers and old people slowly" https://themarket.ch/interview/russell-napier-the-world-will-experience-a-capex-boom-ld.7606 11 comments bitcoin
- "Among states that voted Republican in the last three elections, all but one gets more money back from the federal government than it pays in taxes. For most Democratic states, it’s the opposite. Looked at this way, the red states are the moochers and the blue states are the makers." http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/108185/blue-states-are-scandinavia-red-states-are-guatemala?page=0,1&fb_action_ids=4709937429454&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%224709937429454%22%3A394830663919027%7D&action_type_map=%7B%224709937429454%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D 580 comments politics
- "Where are the Tea Partiers on this one? Apparently they have no problem with big government handing tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to rich Wall Street bankers. They only get upset when they think that some of their money might be used to provide poor people with health care." http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/dean_baker_ec04d23b-022b-4aed-bca4-c7c9f3830736.html 6 comments politics
- Don't you get it? Drugs are illegal so the government can make more money selling them. The only way we will ever make them legal is if everybody quit buying them. http://www.google.com/search?q=cocaine+tons+plane+crash 12 comments politics
- Trump Wants U.S. Government To ‘Get A Lot Of Money’ For Allowing Microsoft-TikTok Deal https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/08/03/trump-wants-us-government-to-get-a-lot-of-money-for-allowing-microsoft-tiktok-deal/ 51 comments worldnews
- Chief Detective Bernie Sanders Solves the Case: New Congressional report demanded by Sanders uncovers one way Wall Street makes so much in a depression: get tens of billions in free money from the Federal Reserve, then turn around and loan it back to the government at higher interest rates http://www.marketwatch.com/story/banks-got-direct-corporate-welfare-study-says-2011-04-26?reflink=mw_news_stmp 5 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren wants to give gay couples $57 million in tax refunds. Her bill would allow same-sex couples who were legally married to get money back from the IRS when the federal government forced them to file separately. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/06/elizabeth-warren-wants-give-gay-couples-57-million-tax-refunds/ 109 comments politics
- "Why isn’t government working for us? Because it’s been bought off. It’s as simple as that. And until we get clean money we’re not going to get clean elections, and until we get clean elections, you can kiss goodbye government of, by, and for the people. Welcome to the plutocracy." http://archive.truthout.org/bill-moyers-money-fights-hard-and-it-fights-dirty64766 37 comments politics
- Trump: At $2.13 An Hour, This Waitress Makes Too Much Money; But If She Gets a Raise, It Will Be Because Her State or Local Government, Not the Feds, Has Increased the Minimum Wage https://www.dcreport.org/2020/02/28/trump-at-2-13-an-hour-this-waitress-makes-too-much-money/ 435 comments politics
- Delhi: Residents may soon get money for unscheduled [P]ower cuts, Kerjriwal government sends plan to L-G Anil Baijal for approval https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india-delhi-power-cut-compensation-arvind-kejriwal-anil-baijal-437999 17 comments india
- The mental hurdle that Core supporters currently cannot get over is fundamentally the same hurdle that the founding fathers of the Bitcoin community had to get over in 2009: understanding and accepting the feasibility of decentralized, market-based governance of a money https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5reb65/the_mental_hurdle_that_core_supporters_currently/ 39 comments btc
- Norquist likes reading about himself. In his HQ's library, opposite the 100 copies of his book (“Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives”), are shelves reserved for tomes in which he is quoted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/26/who-is-grover-norquist/?hpid=z2 8 comments politics
- The common global citizen is finding it increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to get his/her government to deal with any major issue as an honest broker. The influence and power of money, and the politicians it has bought, are interpreted as a direct threat to democracy. http://www.themercury.com.au/news/opinion/talking-point-americas-ultimate-distraction/news-story/ba9b6377088b0832b3b2dbbb59a59bf6 82 comments politics
- With tornadoes decimating the southeast US, let us remember how the 4 GOP candidates responded to Hurricane Katrina in 2005: Romney sent $25 million as governor of Mass., Santorum supported assistance as long as casinos didn't get any money, Gingrich blamed the government and Ron Paul voted "no". http://www.nola.com/katrina/index.ssf/2012/02/hurricane_katrina_inspired_var.html 51 comments politics